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Black-box optimization is essential for tuning complex machine learning algorithms which are easier to experiment with than to understand. In this paper, we show that a simple ensemble of black-box optimization algorithms can outperform any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jiwei Liu , Bojan Tunguz , Gilberto Titericz

We develop an experimental algorithm for the exact solving of the maximum independent set problem. The algorithm consecutively finds the maximal independent sets of vertices in an arbitrary undirected graph such that the next such set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

Major advancements in computer vision can primarily be attributed to the use of labeled datasets. However, acquiring labels for datasets often results in errors which can harm model performance. Recent works have proposed methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Maya Srikanth , Jeremy Irvin , Brian Wesley Hill , Felipe Godoy , Ishan Sabane , Andrew Y. Ng

In various areas of computer science, we deal with a set of constraints to be satisfied. If the constraints cannot be satisfied simultaneously, it is desirable to identify the core problems among them. Such cores are called minimal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Jaroslav Bendik , Ivana Cerna , Nikola Benes

In optimization or machine learning problems we are given a set of items, usually points in some metric space, and the goal is to minimize or maximize an objective function over some space of candidate solutions. For example, in clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Dan Feldman

This paper introduces a novel algorithm combination designed for fast one-to-many multicriteria shortest path search. A preprocessing algorithm excludes irrelevant vertices by building a smaller cover graph. A modified version of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Temirlan Kurbanov , Marek Cuchý , Jiří Vokřínek

Cross-modal image-text retrieval is challenging because of the diverse possible associations between content from different modalities. Traditional methods learn a single-vector embedding to represent semantics of each sample, but struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Hani Alomari , Anushka Sivakumar , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas

Previous works on meta-learning either relied on elaborately hand-designed network structures or adopted specialized learning rules to a particular domain. We propose a universal framework to optimize the meta-learning process automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao shi , Feiyu Xu

The paper explores a new extremality model involving collections of arbitrary families of sets. We demonstrate its applicability to set-valued optimization problems with general preferences, weakening the assumptions of the known results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Nguyen Duy Cuong , Alexander Y. Kruger , Nguyen Hieu Thao

In this paper, we propose an AdaBoost-assisted extreme learning machine for efficient online sequential classification (AOS-ELM). In order to achieve better accuracy in online sequential learning scenarios, we utilize the cost-sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Yi-Ta Chen , Yu-Chuan Chuang , An-Yeu , Wu

The Maximum Independent Set problem is fundamental for extracting conflict-free structure from large graphs, with applications in scheduling, recommendation, and network analysis. However, existing heuristics can stagnate when search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yu Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Chanjuan Liu , Enqiang Zhu

The widely adopted sequential variant of Non Maximum Suppression (or Greedy-NMS) is a crucial module for object-detection pipelines. Unfortunately, for the region proposal stage of two/multi-stage detectors, NMS is turning out to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Rohun Tripathi , Vasu Singla , Mahyar Najibi , Bharat Singh , Abhishek Sharma , Larry Davis

Maximal Clique Enumeration (MCE) is a fundamental graph mining problem, and is useful as a primitive in identifying dense structures in a graph. Due to the high computational cost of MCE, parallel methods are imperative for dealing with…

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Data mining is the practice to search large amount of data to discover data patterns. Data mining uses mathematical algorithms to group the data and evaluate the future events. Association rule is a research area in the field of knowledge…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Jnanamurthy H. K.

A 2-packing set for an undirected, weighted graph G=(V,E,w) is a subset S of the vertices V such that any two vertices are not adjacent and have no common neighbors. The Maximum Weight 2-Packing Set problem that asks for a 2-packing set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

Finding all maximal $k$-plexes on networks is a fundamental research problem in graph analysis due to many important applications, such as community detection, biological graph analysis, and so on. A $k$-plex is a subgraph in which every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Qiangqiang Dai , Rong-Hua Li , Hongchao Qin , Meihao Liao , Guoren Wang

Finding the largest cardinality feasible subset of an infeasible set of linear constraints is the Maximum Feasible Subsystem problem (MAX FS). Solving this problem is crucial in a wide range of applications such as machine learning and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Fereshteh Fakhar Firouzeh , John W. Chinneck , Sreeraman Rajan

In this paper, we show that preprocessing data using a variant of rank transformation called 'Average Rank over an Ensemble of Sub-samples (ARES)' makes clustering algorithms robust to data representation and enable them to detect varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Sunil Aryal , Jonathan R. Wells , Arbind Agrahari Baniya , KC Santosh

The GEneral Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is one of the essential algorithms in scientific computing. Single-thread GEMM implementations are well-optimised with techniques like blocking and autotuning. However, due to the complexity of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yufan Xia , Marco De La Pierre , Amanda S. Barnard , Giuseppe Maria Junior Barca

We introduce a new library named abess that implements a unified framework of best-subset selection for solving diverse machine learning problems, e.g., linear regression, classification, and principal component analysis. Particularly, the…

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